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AVG reports false positives for Simidude

by tuhlmann on November 18, 2009 Posted in Business, Simidude

During the last few days I got reports from two customers that said the virus scanner AVG reported Simidude as a trojan horse:

Simidude reported a Trojan Horse by AVG

As reported by the install4j people these issues should be resolved by now. You might need to update your AVG virus database if you were hit by this:

http://forums.avg.com/ww-en/avg-free-forum?sec=thread&act=show&id=39669

Have a great day,

Torsten.

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BitsDuJour Sales Statistics

by tuhlmann on November 3, 2009 Posted in Marketing

Our last BitsDuJour day was on October 29 and went were well. That is, apart from the short server outage.

Here’s their Simidude page with some nice review comments from the customers: http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/simidude/

This is the second time I have done this for Simidude, our cross platform network clipboard and file sharing tool. And this time as well as the last time I’m quiet satisfied with the results.

I thought breaking out some numbers about the sales would be interesting for those of you who think BitsDuJour or one of the alternative sites would be an option for increasing sales of their products.

On that day I sold about 64 licenses and refunded one. That is actually really great for my current situation. On normal month I sell about 2-5 licenses (which shows that I need to work on my marketing dramatically).

The pie chart shows the distribution of buyers on countries. It clearly shows that Simidude’s market is largest in the US.

From the 64 buyers 30 used Paypal for payment, all other purchases were made with credit card.

For those who like numbers here are some access statistics to the BitsDuJour site:

The Simidude page at BitsDuJour was hit 3474 times
Simidude was downloaded 154 times through BitsDuJour
The checkout process was started 111 times- and 64 time it was completed.

Interestingly during my first BitsDuJour day the Simidude page was hit nearly exactly as often as this time. I sold 10 more licenses, a reason for this might be the server outage…

Now I hope the numbers help you to make an informed decision whether or not BitsDuJour can be a help for you.

Have a great day!

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Simidude 1.4.0 Release Notes

by tuhlmann on September 23, 2009 Posted in Release Notes

These are the release notes for version 1.4.0 of the cross platform network clipboard Simidude.

Version 1.4.0 adds quite a list of new features that will make your use of Simidude more effective and fun:

Feature: Simidude on Windows (32-bit) and Linux now supports global hotkeys to bring the application to front or to activate the latest Simidude entry into the clipboard. On Windows (32-bit) it does not just activate the latest entry but will actually paste the entry into the active application.
Feature: You can now enable an option to show a balloon tooltip near the tray icon whenever a new entry arrives in Simidude.
Feature: You can now enable an option to automatically activate a new arriving Simidude entry. Please note that the entry is only activated when it is inserted top of the list of entries.
Feature: Another new option is to let Simidude automatically download remote files or directories.
Feature: The user manual is now included with each Simidude distribution.
Feature: When an item arrives in Simidude for a second time, the item is moved from it’s current position in the list to the top. That makes it much easier to refind entries if the list is long.

This version is recommended for all users.

As always if you have any feature requests please let me know- loud and clear.

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Run 32 bit SWT apps from Eclipse in Snow Leopard

by tuhlmann on September 16, 2009 Posted in IT

After I received an update for my UMTS modem driver to finally work with Snow Leopard I again decided to update my MacBook Pro to Snowy.

After getting that system up to speed again I continued working on Simidude- I’m about to integrate global hotkey support- at least on Windows and Linux for now.

Firing up Eclipse, editing a bit and launching Simidude brought me this error:

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Cannot load 32-bit SWT libraries on 64-bit JVM
    at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:182)
    at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:159)

Turns out that Snow Leopard tries to start Java applications by default with the 64 bit virtual machine which does not work with Simidude because I bundle it with the 32 bit libraries.

Interesting enough when Simidude is launched from the Finder everything works fine…

Now, drum roll please, the solution to this problem is pretty simple:

Open up the Java JRE definition in Eclipse->Settings->Java->Installed JRE edit your standard Java VM and add the following to the “Default VM Arguments”: -d32

Happy Snow Leopard-ing…

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Java Tip: How to find the location of a class being executed

by tuhlmann on July 29, 2009 Posted in Programming, english

Today I wanted to find the location of a class file to make sure the class is really called from a specific jar file (old project with historically grown piles of archaeologically valuable code).

Turns out this is pretty easy. For instance within the class you log the result of the following statement:

URI uri = this.getClass().getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().toURI()

This will give you the exact place from witch the class was loaded.

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Simidude 1.3.2 withdrawn – again

by tuhlmann on July 16, 2009 Posted in IT

I’m very very sorry for this trouble but today I had to withdraw my Simidude 1.3.2 release again.

There is a major installer problem on the Mac side. I have reports from users that the Windows version works great, so no problem here.

However I added a step to the installer to remove files from previous installations. I told the installer to delete the contents of the installation dir. On Windows this would be “C:\Program Files\Simidude” for instance. On Mac however this is “/Applications” because an application directory is treated as some kind of special file. Alas my installer tried to remove everything from “/Applications” which I only recognized today when I tried to read my mail and my Mail.app program was gone.

Now thanks to Time Machine all the files get rolled back in place, but I sincerely hope no one of you guys was installing 1.3.2 on a Mac!

After properly testing the installer changes on Mac Linux and Windows I’m gonna release a new version- again.

Torsten.

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